Mad Poets, Painters, Playwrights, and Drunken Priests

7 Jul 2003
Of such was Ireland dreamed up, waxed Bono, according to the latest edition of Connect Magazine.

The magazine is published by The American Ireland Fund, which honoured the U2 singer earlier in the Spring, for his work campaigning for a better deal for the world's poorest countries.

You can read the article here www.irlfunds.org

You can also find video of Bono addressing guests at their annual shebang here www.irlfunds.org

More on the campaign to cancel debt and improve aid to the poorest countries here www.datadata.org

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